In 1986, the first of the series of long-term oxygen therapy (LTOT) consensus conferences was held in Denver, Colorado. Its aim and the aim of those that followed was to consider emerging issues and problems in LTOT prescribing, reimbursement, and access, as well as education and research challenges. Subsequent conferences were held in 1987, 1990, 1993, and 1999. The reports of these were publi...

product innovation success has very much to do with the development of models ormetaphors that are able to guide actors. one can observe two traditions in thisregard: rational and non-rational models. apparently in the former the model, suchas “development funnel”, is regarded as a mechanism and rigid applicable, picturinginnovation as an orderly, goal-oriented, value-neutral, and systematic pr...

In the early 1970s, James Buchanan and Gordon TuUock held a series of seminars examining anarchism as a feasible method of social organization (Tullock 1972b; Tullock 1974b). The general consensus was that that good which may be termed "security" is a public or collective good. Since "security" is both (a) essential for the very existence of any social order and (b)incapable of being supplied v...

The notion of a consensus, although it means little in science, is often used in support of the claim of man-made warming. Even quite recently we've seen reports about more than 400 people, mainly highly qualified scientists who "reject the consensus". But what is the history of claims of a consensus and what exactly is the consensus to which these claims refer, and even more importantly, do th...

we characterize the rational subsets of a finite group and discuss the relations to integral cayley graphs.

We study how a consensus emerges in finite population of like-minded individuals who are asymmetrically informed about the realization true state world. Agents observe private signal and then start exchanging messages. Generalizing classical model rational dialogues Geanakoplos Polemarchakis (1982) its subsequent extensions, we dispense with standard assumption that space is probability do not ...

Neil Levy argues that the importance of acquiring cultural knowledge in our evolutionary past selected for conformist and deferential social learning, contemporary bad beliefs – roughly, popular at odds with expert consensus result primarily from rational deployment such conformity deference epistemically polluted modern environments. I raise several objections to this perspective. First, again...